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With
this battle, the organized resistance of the Moros was broken and the
episode of "Kris versus Krag" came virtually to an end. There were
a few more minor battles, but never again did the Moros place a
formidable force in the field against the Americans. The Mohammedans
fought a grand fight at Bagsak against superior weapons. They showed
the Arnercans, as they had showed the Spaniards, that they were not
afraid to die. June
15: It is the day on which thou, O Tiber, dost send the sweepings of
Vesta's temple down the Etruscan water to the sea. If St Vitus' Day be rainy weather, Oh! St Vitus, do not rain, so that we may
not want barley. |
Bud Bagsak massacre, 1913; 1963
US Army Poster No. 21-48 Source |
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
Traditional English children's rhyme
DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles
the young day in her arms.
Jean Arp
(Hans Arp); the first printed example of the word 'Dada' was on June
15, 1916
DADA speaks with you, it is
everything, it envelopes everything, it belongs to every religion, can
be neither victory or defeat, it lives in space and not in time.
Francis Picabia
Dada is
the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.
Richard
Huelsenbeck
You know how
dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even
dumber than that.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs, guru; his face appeared on a tortilla in Plano,
Texas, USA on June 15, 1963
Pull the wool over
your own eyes.
JR 'Bob' Dobbs
Beneath
the cobblestones is the beach.
Graffiti, May-June student/worker
protests, Paris, 1968
June
15 is
the 166th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (167th
in leap years), with 199
days remaining.
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Feast
day of Ss Vitus
(Guy), Crescentia, and Modestus, martyrs
(Sensitive
plant, Mimosa sensit, is
today's plant, dedicated to Vitus.)
Martyred during the Diocletian persecution, St Vitus
was a
Sicilian youth. He was killed with his tutor, Modestus, and nurse,
Crescentia, about 303.
He was converted in Sicily as a boy by his nurse, and fled his father's wrath to Italy, where he was martyred under the reign of Diocletian. According to the legend, his father was angry that his son had been converted to Christianity by his nurse and her husband, so Dad turned him over to the authorities. While Vitus was in prison, angels danced for him, so he is the patron of dancers, actors, comedians and mummers and those inflicted with fit-producing diseases like epilepsy and chorea (also known as 'St Vitus's Dance').
His emblem is a cock or a dog, and he is patron of dogs. In art, he is shown as a boy with a rooster and a cauldron, or with Modestus and Crescentia as they refuse to worship idols. He may be shown being put into an oven; with a palm and cauldron; with a palm and dog; with a chalice and dog; with sword and dog; with a sword and rooster; with a book and rooster; with a wolf or lion; or as a young prince with a palm and sceptre (Roeder, source).
Somehow a chapel near
Ulm was dedicated to him, and to this chapel annually came women who were
ill with a nervous or hysterical affliction. This came to be called St
Vitus's Dance. Perhaps this term was extended to other similar muscular
disorders.
After St Vitus and his
companions were martyred, and their heads enclosed in a church wall, they
were forgotten. Years later in renovations, the heads were discovered, and
the bells started tolling of themselves. The heads caused miracles to
occur. Or, so it is said.
In pre-Reformation
times in England, chickens were sacrificed on this day to avert the
disease. On this day, like St Swithin's, if it rains it will rain for
many more days.
His patronage also includes, against animal attacks,
against dog bites, against lightning, against storms, against wild beasts,
dog bites, lightning, Saint Vitus's Dance,
snake bites and storms.
St Vitus's Dance
In the 17th
Century in
Germany it was believed that good health could be assured by dancing in
front of a statue of the saint on his feast day.
Such dancing to excess
is said to have come to be confused with chorea, hence its name, St Vitus's Dance, for the saint
is invoked against it.
Midsummer
dancing madness
Originally pagan celebrations were held at around this time, with wild dancing. The day on which the dancing was centred was christianized as the Feast of St John the Baptist, patron of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), and German people thronged there on his day, June 24, for the dancing. In 1374 the Rhine flooded and the dancing of the peasants, whose lives were sorely afflicted beyond their normal poverty, went wild.
The 'dancing madness' became known as St John's Dance and the mania spread after a few months to Maastricht, Utrecht, Liege and elsewhere. The mania died out after six months in the Low Countries. In Germany the authorities tried to suppress it but it continued for centuries. The dance was recorded in 1518; later it came to be called St Vitus's Dance."His nurse Crescentia, who supposedly converted him to Christianity, seems an emblem of the Moon goddess, the crescent moon, and his name ('life' in Latin) indicates that he too is a spurious saint. He was especially venerated in Westphalia, where bones said to be his had rested since the ninth century AD., though his legend assigned him to the time of Diocletian, six hundred years earlier." Source
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